April 7, 2025

Deporting Radicals

By David Haldane April 7, 2025     I understand why students protest. As an undergraduate at UCLA in the late 1960s, I spent a fair […]
March 10, 2025

One Job

By David Haldane March 10, 2025     He had one job. To sign an already-negotiated agreement granting US rights to Ukrainian rare-earth minerals, which America […]
December 16, 2024

A Return to Old-Fashioned Journalism at the LA Times?

  By David Haldane Dec. 16, 2024   I’ve been meaning to write this column for a couple of months. My hesitation was because it involves […]
November 17, 2024

Sexual Suffrage or Feminist Freakout?

By David Haldane Nov. 18, 2024   I can’t say I’m surprised. Distressed by Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, some leftist American women are vowing to […]
June 12, 2023

Slaughter, Slaughter Everywhere

By David Haldane June 8, 2023   The headline was a grabber. “We had our own holocaust here,” it grievously intoned. The story that followed–on the […]
June 16, 2022

Activism’s Heavy Toll

By David Haldane June 16, 2022     It was everywhere. With few exceptions, every TV news channel in America livestreamed last week’s Congressional hearings in […]
February 10, 2022

Who Do You Trust?

By David Haldane Feb. 10, 2022     When I was a college student in Southern California, the name Ferdinand Marcos evoked visions of hell. Wasn’t […]
April 8, 2021

Crossing Borders

By David Haldane April 8, 2021   One of the happiest days of my life was the one in which my Filipino fiancé arrived in America. […]
February 18, 2021

Trump and Duterte

By David Haldane Feb. 18, 2021   I felt honored that she asked me. An old friend, a Filipino journalist named Effe Barker now living in […]
February 4, 2021

Boarded Windows

By David Haldane Feb. 4, 2021   The boards are everywhere. Driving along the nighttime streets, you see them on the storefront windows. Some stand nailed […]
January 21, 2021

Old Friends

By David Haldane Jan. 21, 2021   It had been nearly two years since we’d last met. Heather and I go way back. Sometime in the […]
January 14, 2021

Second American Revolution?

By David Haldane Jan. 14, 2021   I couldn’t believe it was real. As thousands of protestors converged on the US capitol building in Washington, D.C., […]